Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2014)

Widespread Rotavirus H in Commercially Raised Pigs, United States

  • Douglas Marthaler,
  • Kurt Rossow,
  • Marie Culhane,
  • Sagar Goyal,
  • Jim Collins,
  • Jelle Matthijnssens,
  • Martha Nelson,
  • Max Ciarlet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2007.140034
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 7
pp. 1203 – 1206

Abstract

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We investigated the presence in US pigs of rotavirus H (RVH), identified in pigs in Japan and Brazil. From 204 samples collected during 2006–2009, we identified RVH in 15% of fecal samples from 10 US states, suggesting that RVH has circulated in the United States since 2002, but probably longer.

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